Odd behavior in normally friendly cat

dennison45

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Hello again! I have another conundrum with my Ralphie boy. He got much better, was all healed up, and on the mend for two weeks from having his tooth removed back in December. He was acting like his old self again. A few weeks ago my wife and I come home, and he comes out, does his thing, has his dinner, goes out into the living room, and we notice that he starts looking at inanimate objects such as a pillow, chair, or the couch, and gets very skittish and runs back into the room we kept him in when he had an infection from his tooth extraction.

He's eating, playing, and getting along with the other cat when she is around. He's perfectly fine and friendly in the back room, but once he is anywhere else he flicks his tail a lot, seems very unsure of things, and is very skittish. I've got a feliway plug in that i thought would help but thus far we've had no luck. My wife and I have not changed our habits or anything around either. Ralphie used to be very curious, would follow you around all over, and generally be sociable with us. Now he is anti-social and not curious at all. 

When he had his tooth infection he smelled funny and would hide in odd places, which he is doing neither as of now. He does not feel like he has a temperature, he eats well, and uses the litter box from that I can tell. I really do not want to have to take him back to the vets because we had such a horrible time there with him and I am rather looking for advice to make him less skittish.

I do not know if he is stressed out by something, or thinks we're going to take him to the vet or something, but it's become very odd indeed. Do they offer some kind of kitty ritalin so he isn't so nervous for nothing? We really have no idea what has caused it. We have not changed anything in our home at all. Having had taken him back and forth to the vets for at least 4 weeks in a row was very traumatic for him and I do not want to have to put him through that once more. 
 
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